Lying makes SOME people nervous. I am sure you know people who can lie better than others.
Are you saying that if you were on a jury, you would not take into account anything other than the WORDS that were spoken? If you read the transcript of a court case, it can be misleading if you don't take into account the context. If a judge can be affected by a witness's tone, why not a jury?
You don't often see a person of (blind) faith have a crisis of conscience.
Is that supposed to be a good thing? I have no crisis of conscience about giving the same civil rights to homosexuals as to straights, whereas the pope also has no crisis of conscience in this area but he reaches a different conclusion. One of us is wrong.
There's probably a lot more "soul searching" and crises of conscience in churches now, because people are questioning their blind faith. When moral codes and social rules are explained from first principles, they make for fewer crises of conscience than if you are told what to do with no more explanation than "God says so".
So you are running into meaningful coincidences every day? I don't. No-one I know does. I have never even heard of anyone for which that statement is true. Until now, and you.
From this, I deduce that either;
God exists and you are his chosen one, or You are suffering from some sort of mental delusion, for which I urge you to seek professional help, or You misunderstand what a coincidence actually is.
Based on my experience in this world, one of those is infinitesimally unlikely.
Something created what exists, otherwise it would not exist. Things don't magically pop in and out of existence; there's something that does it.
Well, yes they sort of do. The theory is that the switching of the overcritical field that causes the spontaneous creation of the universe, is the destruction of the universe before it. Ad infinitum, and it's possible that the previous universe is actually this universe - if time is curved in on itself totally.
It was explained to me much better than I can explain it here, sorry:(
People lie all the time, and jurors don't need to be "experts in body language and voice analysis" to spot when someone's body language and tone of voice makes them a likely liar. I bet YOU make assumptions based on something other than what is actually said.
Huh? I'd not reveal the identity of Rosebud either, because there are always people who do not know the ending. Why spoil it for them just because it's over 50 years old? They both fall into the same category of "protected spoilers" I'd have thought.
As for comparing Citizen Kane the movie to the Mousetrap as a script, you just can't do that. Much of the enjoyment of the play comes from the direction (or misdirection). I worked on a production last year and the director did a stunning job of making it dark and thrilling. I've seen some productions that treat it as a melodrama, or more of a comedy who-dunnit.
I don't get it. If your going to wikipedia to read about the play, then you already should be aware of the fact that it is going to tell you about the play. If you think that knowledge will spoil your viewing of the play, then you should be smart enough to not read about the play until after you go see it.
Not neccessarily true. Assume I've never seen the play and do not know the twist. I have tickets for the show next week, and a friend of mine said it might be the longest running play of all time but they are not sure, nor are they sure when the play was written. How would *I* find out that information without hitting a spolier?
Much like the choice "Do I want to be employed, or unemployed?". At work I have no choice but to accept all incoming emails. It's the default setting anyway. In fact, once you decide to get a domestic email address, until you make a choice, someone can email you. Mass spams might get to you accidentally one day even if you don't advertise your email address.
So I think you have it backwards, it would be more accurate to say that disallowing someone to email you is a choice, because the default is to allow it.
Maybe another layer, but one you probably won't see too much of I bet. This seems to be a TiVo for email. Learns as you go what you deem important, and filters accordingly.
How do you deal with the situation where someone's asking you for a definitive answer on X (whether X is what's the best CMS for our company, does app Y support blah, etc.)?
About 20% of my work emails are written over a period of time, and end up in the Drafts folder. I *know* the summary of what I want to say already, and that becomes the subject. Actually getting that out into an email in such a way that it becomes unambiguous to anyone who'd read the email - that's the art of writing good emails. If you have no idea what the summary is going to be yet, why are you writing the email in the first place?
The island it's on (Liberty Island) is part of New York state, though surrounded by New Jersey waters. That said, while Liberty Island (and therefore the Statue of Liberty as well) is in New York, all the land is owned by the Federal Government.
Spouting ignorance and rumor as if the source is valid statistics? Doesn't that make you as bad as those you seek to demonize? Or at least as bad as the network news anchors?
Gallop is a recognised and respected polling/opinion gathering institution..
They want tools to help. Namely, I would like to know more about the violence level of a program and to care less about sex. My kids will be punished more by going into the first than in the second.
If you are in the US, then your TV has a V-Chip, and you can block anything more violent than (for example) a PG rating.
Seriously? You haven't thought that through? Hygiene. People are urged, through the legal framework, to shit where there's plumbing that can deal with it. I've crapped in a few public lavatories where the stalls have walls that are low enough for you to see and talk to the person in the next one. I have little problem with the concept, everyone shits. Public toilets are there to be used.
Drugs, prostitution, and gambling are all social ills with well-documented effects.
Whoa there, Scooter. I do drugs (yummy alcohol for a start), I prostitute my body to my gf plus my brain to my employer, and I play the national lottery. I expect I'm not that much different from most people in my country, so please be a bit more specific when tarring us all with your "social ills" brush.
If you want to argue about religion, blast away, but it's not entirely honest to cite only the bad things that flow from it, without acknowledging the good.
Unless you can prove that the religious are more likely to set up hospitals/shelters/disaster relief efforts, then it's entirely honest to cite only the bad things that flow from religion.
There are a large number of secular organisations that are front and centre when it comes to setting up hospitals/shelters/disaster relief efforts.
That could be because Star Wars is about the story, whereas Star Trek is about the characters.
Inventing Particle A which is fixed by Particle B may not be a good story in itself, but how Kirk, Spock, Bones et al deal with the situation is why I like ST over SW.
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Lying makes SOME people nervous. I am sure you know people who can lie better than others.
Are you saying that if you were on a jury, you would not take into account anything other than the WORDS that were spoken? If you read the transcript of a court case, it can be misleading if you don't take into account the context. If a judge can be affected by a witness's tone, why not a jury?
You don't often see a person of (blind) faith have a crisis of conscience.
Is that supposed to be a good thing? I have no crisis of conscience about giving the same civil rights to homosexuals as to straights, whereas the pope also has no crisis of conscience in this area but he reaches a different conclusion. One of us is wrong.
There's probably a lot more "soul searching" and crises of conscience in churches now, because people are questioning their blind faith. When moral codes and social rules are explained from first principles, they make for fewer crises of conscience than if you are told what to do with no more explanation than "God says so".
So you are running into meaningful coincidences every day? I don't. No-one I know does. I have never even heard of anyone for which that statement is true. Until now, and you.
From this, I deduce that either;
God exists and you are his chosen one,
or
You are suffering from some sort of mental delusion, for which I urge you to seek professional help,
or
You misunderstand what a coincidence actually is.
Based on my experience in this world, one of those is infinitesimally unlikely.
Something created what exists, otherwise it would not exist. Things don't magically pop in and out of existence; there's something that does it.
Well, yes they sort of do. The theory is that the switching of the overcritical field that causes the spontaneous creation of the universe, is the destruction of the universe before it. Ad infinitum, and it's possible that the previous universe is actually this universe - if time is curved in on itself totally.
It was explained to me much better than I can explain it here, sorry :(
"I didn't kill the victim"
vs.
"I didn't kill the victim" (wink, wink!)
People lie all the time, and jurors don't need to be "experts in body language and voice analysis" to spot when someone's body language and tone of voice makes them a likely liar. I bet YOU make assumptions based on something other than what is actually said.
The issue isn't getting out of jury service, the issue is that once you are a citizen you are given no choice but to "agree" to a number of laws.
FTFY.
Huh? I'd not reveal the identity of Rosebud either, because there are always people who do not know the ending. Why spoil it for them just because it's over 50 years old? They both fall into the same category of "protected spoilers" I'd have thought.
As for comparing Citizen Kane the movie to the Mousetrap as a script, you just can't do that. Much of the enjoyment of the play comes from the direction (or misdirection). I worked on a production last year and the director did a stunning job of making it dark and thrilling. I've seen some productions that treat it as a melodrama, or more of a comedy who-dunnit.
I don't get it. If your going to wikipedia to read about the play, then you already should be aware of the fact that it is going to tell you about the play. If you think that knowledge will spoil your viewing of the play, then you should be smart enough to not read about the play until after you go see it.
Not neccessarily true. Assume I've never seen the play and do not know the twist. I have tickets for the show next week, and a friend of mine said it might be the longest running play of all time but they are not sure, nor are they sure when the play was written. How would *I* find out that information without hitting a spolier?
Allowing someone to email you is a choice.
Much like the choice "Do I want to be employed, or unemployed?". At work I have no choice but to accept all incoming emails. It's the default setting anyway. In fact, once you decide to get a domestic email address, until you make a choice, someone can email you. Mass spams might get to you accidentally one day even if you don't advertise your email address.
So I think you have it backwards, it would be more accurate to say that disallowing someone to email you is a choice, because the default is to allow it.
Maybe another layer, but one you probably won't see too much of I bet. This seems to be a TiVo for email. Learns as you go what you deem important, and filters accordingly.
How do you deal with the situation where someone's asking you for a definitive answer on X (whether X is what's the best CMS for our company, does app Y support blah, etc.)?
I don't know, I'll find out
I get 'high importance' flagged emails from servers, and never reply to those. In fact they get deleted after the issue has been fixed.
About 20% of my work emails are written over a period of time, and end up in the Drafts folder. I *know* the summary of what I want to say already, and that becomes the subject. Actually getting that out into an email in such a way that it becomes unambiguous to anyone who'd read the email - that's the art of writing good emails. If you have no idea what the summary is going to be yet, why are you writing the email in the first place?
No, the worst are those who do not put a subject line at all.
Which happens to be located in New Jersey.
The island it's on (Liberty Island) is part of New York state, though surrounded by New Jersey waters. That said, while Liberty Island (and therefore the Statue of Liberty as well) is in New York, all the land is owned by the Federal Government.
Spouting ignorance and rumor as if the source is valid statistics? Doesn't that make you as bad as those you seek to demonize? Or at least as bad as the network news anchors?
Gallop is a recognised and respected polling/opinion gathering institution..
They conducted a poll
Any union.
No - I've joined and left two unions, and never felt any pressure to "not break from the group"
Any police force.
No - police retire from the force/service all the time.
Any family.
No - you don't know my family.
Try again. 0 for 3 so far.
They want tools to help. Namely, I would like to know more about the violence level of a program and to care less about sex. My kids will be punished more by going into the first than in the second.
If you are in the US, then your TV has a V-Chip, and you can block anything more violent than (for example) a PG rating.
True, but that is not a quality exclusive to religion. Many secular organizations have similar pressures.
Name three.
Why can't you take a shit in public?
Seriously? You haven't thought that through? Hygiene. People are urged, through the legal framework, to shit where there's plumbing that can deal with it. I've crapped in a few public lavatories where the stalls have walls that are low enough for you to see and talk to the person in the next one. I have little problem with the concept, everyone shits. Public toilets are there to be used.
Drugs, prostitution, and gambling are all social ills with well-documented effects.
Whoa there, Scooter. I do drugs (yummy alcohol for a start), I prostitute my body to my gf plus my brain to my employer, and I play the national lottery. I expect I'm not that much different from most people in my country, so please be a bit more specific when tarring us all with your "social ills" brush.
If you want to argue about religion, blast away, but it's not entirely honest to cite only the bad things that flow from it, without acknowledging the good.
Unless you can prove that the religious are more likely to set up hospitals/shelters/disaster relief efforts, then it's entirely honest to cite only the bad things that flow from religion.
There are a large number of secular organisations that are front and centre when it comes to setting up hospitals/shelters/disaster relief efforts.
Can you name one act of terror in the past 20 years that had nothing to do with religion? I know I can't.
Explain Justin Beiber.
That could be because Star Wars is about the story, whereas Star Trek is about the characters.
Inventing Particle A which is fixed by Particle B may not be a good story in itself, but how Kirk, Spock, Bones et al deal with the situation is why I like ST over SW.
Darth Vader was a great baddie, but so was Khan.
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Gotcha, thanks :)